Wulf Kansteiner

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 865 citations indexed

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Wulf Kansteiner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, History and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wulf Kansteiner has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in History and 16 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Wulf Kansteiner's work include Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (15 papers), German History and Society (11 papers) and European history and politics (10 papers). Wulf Kansteiner is often cited by papers focused on Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (15 papers), German History and Society (11 papers) and European history and politics (10 papers). Wulf Kansteiner collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. Wulf Kansteiner's co-authors include Todd Presner, Siobhan Kattago, Hans Lauge Hansen, Anna Cento Bull, Ansgar Nünning, Astrid Erll, Russell A. Berman, Claudio Fogu, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Harald Welzer and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, History and Theory and German Studies Review.

In The Last Decade

Wulf Kansteiner

32 papers receiving 670 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies

2002 549 citations Wulf Kansteiner History and Theory profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wulf Kansteiner Denmark	12	429	404	162	127	123	40	865
Vered Vinitzky‐Seroussi Israel	12	553 1.3×	473 1.2×	96 0.6×	113 0.9×	133 1.1×	24	948
Ann Rigney Netherlands	15	424 1.0×	391 1.0×	187 1.2×	105 0.8×	92 0.7×	44	886
Susannah Radstone United Kingdom	14	343 0.8×	323 0.8×	111 0.7×	94 0.7×	67 0.5×	31	703
John Czaplicka	4	429 1.0×	366 0.9×	119 0.7×	154 1.2×	108 0.9×	5	954
Alison Landsberg United States	8	303 0.7×	345 0.9×	122 0.8×	58 0.5×	92 0.7×	14	678
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld United States	12	409 1.0×	342 0.8×	223 1.4×	253 2.0×	150 1.2×	45	873
Anna Reading United Kingdom	16	312 0.7×	268 0.7×	72 0.4×	112 0.9×	98 0.8×	42	746
Aleida Assmann Germany	19	552 1.3×	475 1.2×	210 1.3×	293 2.3×	223 1.8×	117	1.3k
Mieke Bal	4	305 0.7×	162 0.4×	87 0.5×	73 0.6×	79 0.6×	7	745
Astrid Erll Germany	16	681 1.6×	740 1.8×	224 1.4×	194 1.5×	223 1.8×	47	1.6k

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2022). DIGITAL DOPING FOR HISTORIANS: CAN HISTORY, MEMORY, AND HISTORICAL THEORY BE RENDERED ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT?. History and Theory. 61(4). 119–133. 23 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2021). Censorship and Memory: Thinking Outside the Box with Facebook, Goebbels, and Xi Jinping. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2021). History beyond Narration:The shifting terrain of bloodlands. 1 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2019). Fantasies of Innocence:the Holocaust Bystander as German Television Star.

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2019). Migration, racism, and memory. Memory Studies. 12(6). 611–616. 3 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2018). The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Digital Anxiety, transnational Cosmopolitanism, and Never Again Genocide Without Memory. 2 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf, et al.. (2012). Provincializing Trauma? A Case Study of Family Violence, Media Reception, and Transcultural Memory [Abstract]. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2012). Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth- Century Europe. 2 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2012). Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White.

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2012). Moral pitfalls of memory studies: The concept of political generations. Memory Studies. 5(2). 111–113. 6 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2011). What is the Opposite of Genocide? Philosemitic Television in Germany, 1963-1995. 1 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2010). Memory, Media and Menschen: Where is the individual in collective memory studies?. Memory Studies. 3(1). 3–4. 19 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf, et al.. (2009). TRUTH AND AUTHENTICITY IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION AND HISTORICAL TRUTH*. History and Theory. 48(2). 1–4. 4 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2009). :Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation.(Oxford Historical Monographs.). The American Historical Review. 114(1). 149–150.

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2004). Testing the limits of trauma: the long-term psychological effects of the Holocaust on individuals and collectives. History of the Human Sciences. 17(2-3). 97–123. 11 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2003). Entertaining Catastrophe: The Reinvention of the Holocaust in the Television of the Federal Republic of Germany. New German Critique. 135–135. 1 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf & Siobhan Kattago. (2002). Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi past and German National Identity. German Studies Review. 25(2). 408–408. 15 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (2000). Mad History Disease Contained?Postmodern Excess Management Advice from the UK. History and Theory. 39(2). 218–229. 3 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (1999). Mandarins in the Public Sphere: Vergangenheitsbewaltigung and the Paradigm of Social History in the Federal Republic of Germany. German Politics & Society. 17(3). 84–120. 3 indexed citations

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Kansteiner, Wulf. (1993). Hayden White's Critique of the Writing of History. History and Theory. 32(3). 273–273. 32 indexed citations

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